Bradford threw for 255 yards and three touchdowns
in another efficient performance, and the Sooners notched
their third blowout of the season with a 54-3 win against
Utah State on Saturday.

"Nothing's easy at all, but I got in that rhythm
early and I did feel I got a lot of confidence that
way and saw things very clearly," said Bradford,
a redshirt freshman who entered the game as the nation's
top-rated passer. "I felt really comfortable today."

Bradford completed his first 11 passes -- including
two for scores -- to reach 21 straight passes without
an incompletion. He'd already had a school-record run
of 22 straight completions that ended in the Sooners'
51-13 rout of Miami last week.

Malcolm Kelly caught his sixth and seventh touchdown
passes of the season and Allen Patrick showed his sprained
ankle has fully healed with a 69-yard TD sprint as
the Sooners (3-0) piled it on again.

Oklahoma has won its first three games by 158 points
-- the most dominant start to a season since 1972,
when the Sooners outscored their first three opponents
169-6.

"If we get 12 of these wins right here, then
that would be just fine with me," Bradford said. "You
really can't complain with this stuff."

Kevin Robinson had eight catches but gained only
38 yards for Utah State (0-3), which has been outscored
230-27 in four meetings against Sooners teams that
were all ranked in the top 10.

After suspending leading tackler Antonio Taylor
earlier in the week, the Aggies lost second-leading
tackler Jake Hutton when doctors couldn't get his heart
rate to settle down. Leading rusher Curtis Marsh left
in the fourth quarter with an ankle injury.

"Obviously we didn't give them any type of
game that we wanted to try to play out there," Utah
State coach Brent Guy said.

Kelly, who entered the game tied for the NCAA lead
with five touchdown catches, scored on throws of 27
and 17 yards from Bradford as Oklahoma built a 38-3
halftime lead. Coach Bob Stoops started pulling his
starters midway through the third quarter after DeMarco
Murray's 92-yard touchdown run -- the third longest
in school history -- made it 45-3.

Stoops credited his team for having a "methodical" approach
to games that prevents a let down.

"We don't want to hit that plateau, and that's
what kind of gets good teams to just kind of be average
or just be good, not great," center Jon Cooper
said. "We just keep striving to get better every
day in practice and every week."

The Sooners opened up their bag of tricks on their
first possession, with Juaquin Iglesias taking a double
reverse 35 yards down the left sideline for a quick
7-0 lead. Bradford faked a handoff to Patrick and gave
the ball to Kelly, who flipped it to Iglesias as he
curled around from the right flank.

Oklahoma also scored on its next two possessions,
with Bradford's 8-yard pass to tight end Joe Jon Finley
giving the Sooners a 21-0 lead.

Bradford completed 19 of 26 passes. In his first
three starts, he is 59-for-74 for 823 yards and 11
touchdowns.

Bradford's first incompletion came when he overshot
Kelly on a post pattern deep downfield, and his first
career interception came on the next play. He was hit
as he threw, and the ball sailed high and tipped off
Iglesias' hand before Roy Hurst dove to intercept it.

The Aggies converted it into a 30-yard field goal
by Peter Caldwell for their only score, but Patrick
responded on the very next play from scrimmage and
showed no ill effects from the ankle injury that kept
him out of the second half of fall practice.

"Now I feel like I'm back," said Patrick,
who was held out of Oklahoma's opener and had only
seven carries against Miami. "I'm my normal self."

Patrick finished with 113 yards on nine carries
as Oklahoma racked up 343 yards rushing and outgained
Utah State 617-153.

Guy said Patrick's run was a "back breaker" after
the Aggies got their first sniff of momentum.

"I didn't feel like we did the things we came
in here and set as goals to do. We just needed to execute,
not do silly things," said Guy, who was particularly
disappointed in the Aggies turning the ball over and
letting the Sooners convert long third downs.

"More than the actual end and the score, those
are the things I'm more disappointed in. Those are
the situations we have to win to win games in the WAC."

Boomer Bytes | Running Blog
 While QB Sam Bradford is stealing all the headlines
so far at Oklahoma (and deservedly so), his classmate,
RB DeMarco Murray, is another star in the making. The
redshirt freshman, who scored five touchdowns in the
Sooners' opener against North Texas, broke off
a 92-yard run Saturday against Utah State...Stewart Mandel at CNNSI

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